According to ancient books, the adults of the Butterfly Blood Gu are called Star Butterflies. They do not shed their feathers every night. The males usually use it to protect the surrounding area during mating. Less than an hour after mating, the male will shed its feathers.
Death. The time when female insects shed their feathers is usually when they lay eggs. The main reasons for shed feathers are these two, and there is another method, which is to induce them to shed their feathers. When the larvae are hatched, Gu farmers will add
Some specially prepared spices will act as a traction to control the killing of adult insects.
After being contaminated with feather powder, the skin of the affected person will change according to the depth of the feather powder toxin. Generally, the time of death is within half an hour.
Ana'er was lying on the table, staring at the butterfly in the glass vase in a daze. The corpse in the suburbs had shriveled skin and turned tan. It should have died in the middle of the night. Judging from the speed of a person walking, it should have been around that time.
It was about thirty miles in radius. Unfortunately, the search team spread out and searched around the place where the body was found. After two days of searching, there was still no result.
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and there were only six days left, and Anael was anxious to wait.
She was almost driving herself crazy because she couldn't find the habitat of the Star Morph butterfly, and there was no evidence to prove that it was the butterfly blood Gu that Jiao Yin often kept.
The moon had already risen outside the window. Chi Tianlin, who was sitting on the side, was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. He yawned and urged, "How long do you have to sit there? You're not even tired?" Seeing that she didn't respond, he asked
He reached out to cover her wide-open eyes and said, "Don't look at it. No matter how hard you stare, it won't tell you the answer."
Ana'er took his hand away and stood up dejectedly, "If you feel sleepy, just go to sleep. You don't have to stay with me!"
Dintong straightened his head in his new nest by the window, his ears twitched, jumped off the desk, twisted step by step, jumped on the stool, then jumped on the table, walked to Anael's hand, and lay down again.
"I also know that sitting like this is of no use..." Anal reached out and stroked its back, frowning and said, "But I'm upset and I really can't sleep."
Chi Tianlin supported his chin with one hand and half-squinted his eyes, "I really can't hold it anymore, let me sleep here today..." He slowly fell on his arm, his voice became increasingly blurred, "Don't chase me away.
When you go out, I want to accompany you..."
Seeing him like this, Ana'er felt a little guilty. Originally, Chi Tianlin had nothing to do with her, but he was sincere and she couldn't bear to let him leave again.
He stood up and took a cloak to cover him. The rice bucket with his eyes closed suddenly jumped up and bared his teeth at the butterfly in the glass vase.
"Fan Tong..." Before he could stop it, he slapped the bottle. The glass bottle spun twice in an instant, then fell to the ground with a snap.
Anael quickly picked it up in his arms to prevent it from chasing the butterfly again.
At first, Ana'er also doubted whether the butterfly was a star butterfly, but after leaving it for a night, it still showed no change, so he denied it. When it crawled out of the debris, flapped its wings and took off, Ana'er
None of you thought that this thing was indeed an adult butterfly bloodgu.
Fantong was imprisoned in Anal's arms, but like crazy, his whole body tensed up, staring at the butterflies in the sky, and roared a warning in his throat.
As if she finally understood, Ana'er looked at the butterflies hovering in the sky with some fear in her eyes. She had never seen what the adult butterfly bloodgu looked like after shedding its feathers, and she didn't know how to deal with it. Thinking of its power, she almost
He was so frightened that he just stood there and forgot to move.
In the dim candlelight, butterflies fluttered in the air. In the blink of an eye, a black figure jumped out of the window. Just as the sword was unsheathed, the butterfly in the air was immediately cut in half and fluttered to the ground.
Xiang Jingyi sheathed his sword and turned to look at her, "Your Highness, are you okay..."
Chi Tianlin opened a pair of tired eyes, raised his hands and rubbed them, "What happened?"
Ana'er said: "It's okay, you can go back to your room and go to sleep." He handed the rice pail to him.
"Oh..." Chi Tianlin yawned and stood up, wandering out of the door.
When he looked back at Xiang Jingyi, he took a candlestick and burned the butterfly stumps.
Anal stood behind him, "Why are you here..."
Without looking back, he said: "There is a strange smell coming out of the room. I... came to take a look." After cleaning up, he stood up again and put the candlestick back on the table. "This thing is very dangerous..."
After Jinglouxue died, more than a hundred black butterflies flew out of her body. Because he was afraid of being seen and causing panic, he burned the corpses of those butterflies. The smell when burning was similar to this
Exactly the same, he only had a vague impression.
"Strange smell? Please tell me more details."
Although Mo Shuruo's body is normal and healthy, Ana'er only relies on his soul to survive, and his sense of smell and taste are basically equivalent to none.
Xiang Jingyi thought for a while and said: "I can't tell you specifically. I just feel that it is suddenly very strong, a bit drowsy, like the fragrance of flowers, but also unpleasant."
This is really strange. Could it be that the star butterfly emits a smell before it sheds its feathers? Thinking of Chi Tianlin's appearance just now, she was a little worried, "Isn't this smell poisonous?"
He shook his head and said, "There shouldn't be. It's probably that the female has reached the mating period and is emitting a scent to attract the males."
She breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly felt scared. If she hadn't noticed it in advance, she might not know how many Star Morpho butterflies would fly to the Wahuang Palace...
After pacing back and forth for a few steps, she came up with an idea, "If we were to look for the smell, we wouldn't have to look for the needle in the haystack!"
"No." Xiang Jingyi said: "The female worm emits a smell, which means the male worm is preparing to shed its feathers. It is too dangerous." In the past few days, Ana'er simply regarded him as a stranger. Where did he go?
What he was doing, he never thought of telling him, and he didn't dare to ask, so he had to stay in the study all day, flipping through the Gu book to look up information about Butterfly Blood Gu.
Fortunately, he has a good temper, otherwise tonight would definitely be a sleepless night.
Although Ana'er didn't say anything to him and usually pretended to ignore his existence, she knew exactly what he was doing every day. So even if he said these words, she didn't
He was surprised, but reminded him, "You have forgotten that these feather powders are not poisonous during the day."
He continued to shake his head, "The feather powder of the butterfly blood Gu adult itself is not poisonous, but during mating, the male will transport the toxins in his body into the feather powder along the lines on the wings. At that time, as long as he is contaminated, he will die.
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She didn't know this, she always thought that Lingfen's poison would only be effective at night.
Suddenly he remembered the woodcutter who died on the way and the Morpho butterfly that was picked up. Ana'er stared at the pile of ashes on the ground in a daze. If he hadn't died after walking for half an hour due to poisoning,
It makes sense to conjecture that the butterflies were caught and poisoned when they started mating halfway. Then the place where we searched at the beginning was wrong! It’s no wonder why we couldn’t find it after two days of searching.
See the shadow of a butterfly.
"Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"
She came back to her senses, sat down worriedly, waved her hand and said, "It's okay, you can go and rest."
In this way, there are no clues about the body at all. The woods near the ancient city are so big, who knows where the woodcutter was caught from. It seems that the only way to find out the identity of the woodcutter is to ask the people he knows.
Which woods he went to when cutting wood.
After thinking about these things, she looked up and was surprised that he was still in the room, "Why haven't you left yet?"
In the past few days, Ana'er was completely focused on the butterfly blood Gu. He didn't sleep for two days in a row and his spirit was always in a state of tension. Xiang Jingyi felt distressed and didn't know how to help, so he was very helpless.
"Let's talk..."
Anael's hands hidden under his wide sleeves were suddenly clenched.
She almost forgot that she was still having a cold war with him. "We have nothing to talk about!" She turned her head away, "Go away, don't wait for me to say something ugly again!"
Xiang Jingyi raised his hand and put the sword on the table. He sat across from him, looking like he would never give up, "I know His Highness is angry that I lied to you. When I first came to Northern Xinjiang, I
I changed the name to Hou Jiajun out of necessity, and I didn’t mean to lie to you."
Since Northern Xinjiang blocked the country, she has not known much about the affairs of the Eastern Continent. Therefore, his identity is not important to her at all. What is important is, "Why did you come to Northern Xinjiang? That Mo Shuruo, and
Who are you!"
"Suruo... is my childhood sweetheart's junior sister. I came to Northern Xinjiang to find her..." At the mention of this, Ana'er didn't want to hear it at all and immediately stood up and left. He hurriedly chased after her and grabbed her wrist.
"Listen to me... Two months ago, Jiao Yinchang captured her and brought her to Northern Xinjiang. When I saw you, I mistook you for her. I have always been puzzled because you obviously followed her.
She is exactly the same, but why does she seem to be a different person..."
"Do you want to know the reason?" Ana'er turned back to look at him and said cruelly: "This body is indeed Mo Shuruo's, but she is already dead. The one alive now is me, Ana'er."
Xiang Jingyi shook his head in disbelief, unable to let go of his hand holding her wrist, and took a step back in shock, "It's impossible... Shu Ruo won't die..."
Seeing his reaction, Anal felt heartbroken, "Now that you know the reason, do you still want to follow me?"
He walked up to her and grabbed her arms. He didn't know if he was asking for confirmation or if he wanted to hear her lie. "You lied to me, didn't you? You said the body was hers, how could she die?"
Ana'er remained motionless and said expressionlessly: "If she doesn't die, how will I survive?"
He took a step back and bumped into the table, "Impossible, how could there be such a method in this world!"
"The sky is vast and abundant, and there are too many unexpected things."
"Then why are you telling me this!" He almost yelled.
"Don't you always want to know..." Anal blinked his tears and pretended to be strong, "You like her so much. Knowing this fact, you should hate me, right? Do you want to kill me to avenge her! Oh.
, I forgot, this body is also hers, you can’t do it.”
Just after she finished speaking, she felt a pain in her right shoulder, and then he pushed her back forcefully and pressed her against the wall. Then an oncoming fist hit the wall behind her ear with a loud bang.
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"How can you be so cruel..." He lowered his head, his voice trembling.
He liked Mo Shuruo very much and wanted to always protect her and guard her. Xiang Jingyi was an orphan. After being adopted by the Mo family, he became Mo Shouting's disciple. For him, Mo Shuruo was his junior sister and a relative.
He seemed to have no strength left to support him. He laid his forehead on her left shoulder and murmured painfully: "Give her back to me. Give her back to me..."
A drop of tears burst out of his eyes, Ana'er remained motionless, "I, Ana'er, have only been eighteen years in my life. I have not yet reached a woman's most beautiful years, nor have I experienced love in the world, or received a trace of sincerity. I want to
I'll die...Hou Jiajun, don't you think you are too cruel!"